Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number are "The Joyless Asphodel," by William V. Moody, and "The Pale Stranger," by Julian Palmer Welsh. In the former, the author shows the material for a very pretty and interesting story, which he fails to do full justice in the working up. "The Pale Stranger" betrays a lack of originality; for the unknown princely guest who sings a mysterious song and then disappears, leaving the fair maiden dead behind him, is hardly without parallel in fairy tale and legend...
...Opposition to the game on account of frequency of accidents is not just. (a) Accidents are not more frequent in proportion to men engaged than in other sports. (b) Most of them are slight. (c) They are largely due to (1) lack of proper training, (2) nonobservance of rules, (3) absence of a proper referee and umpire. (d) Mass play is not more dangerous than open play. (e) Inferences from reports of English games are misleading. For Eng. game: Handbook of Sports: Bell, Lond...
...Harvard students who have neither time nor ability to work with the various athletic teams. An average of 100 men exercise every afternoon. Although 300 men signed for the class at the beginning of the year, and it seemed that two classes would have to be formed for lack of accommodations, there has been ample room every afternoon for the men present...
...Yale on the regular Harvard-Yale debates. This was in no sense a competitive debate between the two universities. These two members of the Wendell Phillips Club were invited to speak, and the club voted to recognize them as representatives. Further than that, they did not represent the University. Lack of space has prevented any earlier report of this debate...
...spite of the alarms about lack of funds, the freshman eleven left for New Haven yesterday morning. The game there this afternoon will be a struggle between team work and individual playing; for the Yale team has been working all the fall under careful training, while the Harvard eleven is almost entirely made up of men who have but recently left the 'varsity squads. Four of them, Stevenson, Beale, Wrighting and Dunlop, played in the Pennsylvania game Thursday, and of the rest there is only one who has never trained on the 'varsity or second elevens. This...